On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Raymond Lillard<rlillard at sonic.net> wrote: > > Dear list, > > I have inherited a CentOS-5 box with a LSI Sata Raid controller. > It is configured as a RAID5 w/hot-standby. My concern is that > I have no present means of determining the RAID status w/o > downing the system and going into the bios to get status. If > a disk has failed and brought the standby disk online, I would > like to know about it, the day it happens by seeing it in syslog > or getting an e-mail message. > > The only solution I have found is on the LSI web-site. It is > tool called "MegaMon for Linux". It most recent release was > in 2005 and it requires that I use their driver. Just the > package title gives me chills. It runs as a daemon and is > almost constantly polling the h/w . > > I would much prefer a simple command line tool that I can > wrap a script around and run it under cron. > > My questions are: > > 1. Does anyone know of a command line tool ? I've had pretty good luck with mpt-status: http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2009/04/18/compiling-mpt-status-on-centos-hosts/ http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2007/02/03/monitoring-lsi-logic-raid-controllers/ > 2. Failing a positive response to #1, has anyone any experience > with "MegaMon for Linux", good or otherwise ? I haven't had a chance to look at MegaMon, but would love to hear your thoughts if you get a chance to play with it. - Ryan -- http://prefetch.net